<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:42:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@sim31/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Current problems with fractals and the meeting schedule]]></title><description><![CDATA[This post will consider some of the problems I currently see in Optimism Fractal and Eden Fractal and how to fix them. First I present an overview of the motivations (problems) and then I present one potential]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/current-problems-with-fractals-and-the-meeting-schedule</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/current-problems-with-fractals-and-the-meeting-schedule</guid><category><![CDATA[dao]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:02:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embracing competition within fractals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the last half a year or so when it comes to contributing to fractal DAOs, my perspective has been about prioritizing consensus before doing. I thought that we have to build consensus on what to do]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/embracing-competition-within-fractals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/embracing-competition-within-fractals</guid><category><![CDATA[dao]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 15:48:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[OREC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Optimistic Respect-based Executive Contract (OREC) is a smart contract that executes transactions on behalf of a DAO, that has a non-transferrable reputation token (which we call “Respect” here). The main]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/governance/@sim31/orec-s6xvyf</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/governance/@sim31/orec-s6xvyf</guid><category><![CDATA[governance]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:01:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher-order fractal]]></title><description><![CDATA[With more and more fractal-like DAOs springing up, I think it is time to start thinking about how these fractals could interact and organize among each other. Here I will propose one obvious model, which]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/governance/@sim31/higher-order-fractal</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/governance/@sim31/higher-order-fractal</guid><category><![CDATA[governance]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 06:40:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect trees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Respect tree is a primitive that can be used by a fractal with non-transferrable Respect to: Organize thoughts of a group of people; Help track and determine priority of: Topics to discuss; Goals / tasks]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/governance/@sim31/respect-trees</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/governance/@sim31/respect-trees</guid><category><![CDATA[governance]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 04:42:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VuqzQbTF4C9unDXwNG9viWTSvAjyL88XSWYC4UwGDbx9Z1kCQT6b54kwJrJ8yo4ykWDHi3LwkdSXNESfrJZ8RGMHSxNcAigdZhq5J2XprLUF8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inherent conflict in defining mission statements for a democratic organization]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consider some hypothetical organization. Let's say it has a clear mission statement and it also claims to be a true democracy, empowering the individual. What happens if individual participants of this]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/inherent-conflict-in-defining-mission-statements-for-a-democratic-organization</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/inherent-conflict-in-defining-mission-statements-for-a-democratic-organization</guid><category><![CDATA[dao]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:05:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing - Fractalgram!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fractalgram is an alternative telegram client web app tailored to help host fractally or Eden style consensus meetings. Today I'm introducing the first version of this app. It is still a very early version]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/introducing-fractalgram</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/introducing-fractalgram</guid><category><![CDATA[dao]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:45:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VuqzQbTF4C9un3X2FqWdpUYgi3EB6iqwkWXinMvYVuFXBty4uo3zmSFZym46Ucirea4HWACuKw2AcNjh1Rze9FWKfA3z6t5N1ZtUuAyABvb3b?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fungibility out of non-fungible tokens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every dollar bill is unique. And yet we treat them as fungible. Every bitcoin is associated with a unique unspent-transaction-output - every bitcoin is effectively unique. Yet we treat it as fungible as]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/fungibility-out-of-non-fungible-tokens</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dao/@sim31/fungibility-out-of-non-fungible-tokens</guid><category><![CDATA[dao]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:12:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VuqzQbTF4C9unCprCrJwuYvKMP9vJpZiK6j56djK2D3L8kQq6SCstke4iMwJQwiBfuyAwdEqp8zqeAPTrfCFVmESgSaJDGEnt6KmccoqBkMdQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eden+Fractal Consensus Process]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a consensus process that EdenFractal community informally agreed to start following, since last week. Previously it was just a google doc so I decided to post it here, for more immutability. While]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/edenfractal-consensus-process</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/edenfractal-consensus-process</guid><category><![CDATA[fractally]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:49:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fractal Blockchains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scalability trilemma is a well-known problem in the blockchain space. It states that there's always a trade-off between blockchain security, decentralization, and scalability. Specifically, it claims that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/fractal-blockchains</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/fractal-blockchains</guid><category><![CDATA[fractally]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:15:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VuqzQbTF4C9unE2DFc75sH6ixCjFGqgu8HxHyoKr6BmZ9bjZ52Miq3FKQ7z5qDdTNQuPU8zcVkKDcYtKCZVEKc7tPprFEwzAXV4HUnatRQqc2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good governance system does not mean good outcomes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Any governance process, regardless of how good and fair the system is, can only be as good as a community of individuals that runs it. This is the idea behind the title. It might seem pretty obvious, but]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/good-governance-system-does-not-mean-good-outcomes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/good-governance-system-does-not-mean-good-outcomes</guid><category><![CDATA[fractally]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 03:32:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albedo idea in a nutshell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Token-weighted governance is the usual means for blockchains and DAOs to make governance decisions and select block producers. The problems with that are well known - centralization, inefficient distribution]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@sim31/albedo-idea-in-a-nutshell</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@sim31/albedo-idea-in-a-nutshell</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:47:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VuqzQbTF4C9unEiZ5ZnauYkMweGYksmHsjz7S1zAyDfz1wHs4bei867As2sxMVrRd8gia2DdZa9oKM1RDWCyD5HxMJ12FDhcVwHBijyLwQmBU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albedo Whitepaper]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a result of work from the last couple of months. My previous blog posts touched on these ideas here and here. This paper unites ideas in these posts. It's about how fractally process can be used]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@sim31/albedo-whitepaper</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@sim31/albedo-whitepaper</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:23:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3DLAmCsuTe3ba2VJAE1ZhN2oVhekeqoshg9DUnSyUd2Cnt4YtUMpZp3szE3KzckQoyKKXGw6Z7zQsmpw4TSSDDpRaTSVzX8FifKiAPHkXAnTjgSFaS8PoQTwad4CciaGNrgYAuz2CqPAeca9cfEtgxkr3bJXh4S?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vision for EdenOnEOS]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the Eden election just around the corner, I think it is important to understand all implications of the current direction of Eden. In my current understanding (which was largely formed by Dan's posts]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@sim31/my-vision-for-edenoneos</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@sim31/my-vision-for-edenoneos</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:22:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VuqzQbTF4C9unoYBije9k9cU5pwmoKVkz6Sq82RSiWf9mwXUJERC8ctLeQrqVQHKzZoGc8gdFWPV4hL8kMe7ik9WFtZjVTGKKgqGxtBtSeWhC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Takeaway from today's Eden Fractal meeting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some questions arose in today's meeting that seems to require a governance mechanism to resolve. Fractally process is first of all a rewarding mechanism and we have only used it as such so far. I mean]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@sim31/takeaway-from-today-s-eden-fractal-meeting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@sim31/takeaway-from-today-s-eden-fractal-meeting</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:42:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secure decentralized applications on a centralized blockchain]]></title><description><![CDATA[About two and a half years ago, I published an article here titled "How to create the most decentralized blockchain". Today, I present a better idea: instead of trying to do the impossible, let's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/decentralization/@sim31/secure-decentralized-applications-on-a-centralized-blockchain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/decentralization/@sim31/secure-decentralized-applications-on-a-centralized-blockchain</guid><category><![CDATA[decentralization]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 12:17:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albedo: How to Decentralize Blockchains using ƒractally]]></title><description><![CDATA[In alchemy, albedo is the second of the four major stages of the magnum opus...[1] ... This phase is concerned with "bringing light and clarity to the prima materia (the First Matter)".[2] In]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/albedo-how-to-decentralize-blockchains-using-fractally</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fractally/@sim31/albedo-how-to-decentralize-blockchains-using-fractally</guid><category><![CDATA[fractally]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:24:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I think Elon Musk is wrong about us living in a simulation]]></title><description><![CDATA[About a year or so ago, Elon Musk made an argument that we are most likely living in a simulation. I felt strong disagreement with that argument back then, but didn't know of steem or have any motivation]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@sim31/why-i-think-elon-musk-is-wrong-about-us-living-in-a-simulation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@sim31/why-i-think-elon-musk-is-wrong-about-us-living-in-a-simulation</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:15:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to decentralize storage properly]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of projects with the goal of creating decentralized storage network in mind. Storj, Sia, Filecoin just to name a few. They all try to replace centralized cloud providers with more secure]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@sim31/how-to-decentralize-storage-properly</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@sim31/how-to-decentralize-storage-properly</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 11:23:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not use threaded comments?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm really a fan of threaded comment structure. I think it is a more natural structure for a discussion, because conversations always branch out anyway. And it makes it easier read and find your way around]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/chainbb-suggestions/@sim31/why-not-use-threaded-comments</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/chainbb-suggestions/@sim31/why-not-use-threaded-comments</guid><category><![CDATA[chainbb-suggestions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sim31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 09:42:51 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>